irregularities committed to delay the proceedings and ensure the impunity
of some of those responsible.
C) Expert witness proposed by the representatives
1. Juan Antonio Mejía Guerra, Masters in Philosophy and Agronomy, who will
testify on the context of risk, violence and impunity affecting human rights
defenders in Honduras, including defenders of the environment, since the
1990s and up to the present day.
D) Witness proposed by the State
1. Adrian Octavio Rosales, prosecutor at the Attorney General’s Office of
Honduras, who will testify on the visit made by Messrs. Carlos Antonio Luna
López and Jose Ángel Rosa Hernández; the way in which criminal trials were
conducted under the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1984; and the progress
made during his tenure at the Attorney General’s Office to investigate the
criminal liability of those involved in the death of Mr. Carlos Antonio Luna
López.
6.
To require the Republic of Honduras to facilitate the exit from and entrance into
its territory of the deponents and expert witnesses who reside or are present therein,
and who have been summoned in this Order to render their testimonies and expert
opinions at the public hearing regarding the merits, reparations and costs in this case,
under the terms of Article 26(1) of the Court’s Rules of Procedure.
7.
To require the Inter-American Commission, the representatives and the State
to serve notice of this Order to the persons they have proposed who have been
summoned to render a statement and/or expert opinion, in accordance with Article
50(2) and 50(4) of the Rules of Procedure.
8.
To inform the Inter-American Commission, the representatives and the State
that they must cover the costs incurred in providing or rendering the evidence they
have offered, pursuant to Article 60 of the Rules.
9.
To require the representatives and the State to inform the persons summoned
by the Court to render statements and expert opinions that, pursuant to Article 54 of
the Rules, the Court shall bring to the State’s attention the cases in which the persons
summoned to appear or testify before this Court fail to do so, or refuse to testify
without legitimate cause or who, in the opinion of the Court, have violated their oath
or solemn declaration, so that appropriate action may be taken under the relevant
domestic legislation.
10.
To inform the representatives, the State and the Inter-American Commission
that, once the statements and expert opinions have been rendered at the public
hearing, they may present before the Court their final oral arguments and final oral
observations, respectively, regarding the merits, reparations and costs in this case.
11.
To order the Secretariat of the Court, in accordance with Article 55(3) of the
Rules of Procedure, to provide the Inter-American Commission, the representatives
and the State, with the link to the recording of the public hearing in this case, as soon
as possible.
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